Re: OT:chlorinating rural wells?

Posted by MarkB_MI on May 13, 2005 at 03:47:26 from (64.31.11.132):

In Reply to: OT:chlorinating rural wells? posted by IaGuy on May 12, 2005 at 18:35:16:

Before you spend money on an automatic chlorinator, first see if chlorination helps. You can shock your system with Clorox. Here's how, if you have a submersible pump with a pitless adapter.

1. Switch your water softener to bypass, as Clorox at high levels can trash the resin bed.

2. Take the cover off your wellhead. Dump some Clorox in. There are formulas on the web for determining how much, but I'd just dump in half a gallon to start; you can always add more.

3. Take a garden hose and use it to run water down the well. Stop when when you can smell chlorine coming from the hose.

4. Open up the cold water taps in the hose until you can smell chlorine in each, then turn them off.

5. Open up the hot water taps and run them until you can smell chlorine. You might as well turn off your water heater, since you'll flush it out later.

6. Leave the house for a few hours.

7. Run your taps until you no longer smell chlorine, or at least it's mostly gone. There will probably be some residual chlorine for a few days. You can turn your water softener back on once the worst of the smell is gone.

If your problem is temporarily fixed, then you might be a candidate for the chlorinator.

(I thought I was going to have to do something similar, until I figured out that I just needed to swap out my water heater anode to fix the rotten egg smell in my water. I'll post a message in tool talk on that.)

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